This post is a pile of crap and deserves one of these:
There is only one person responsible for answering to this crime and that is the shooter!
Posted on 04/17/2007 5:21:32 AM PDT by IrishMike
The entire nation will now collectively mourn one of the great tragedies one can endure: the death of so many of our children.
But a detailed analysis of the facts will also be ongoing. There are many questions from all observers.
It just seems to me, when law enforcement finds two dead bodies on a sleepy university campus in the 7 A.M. hour: they immediately should slam the “Red Alert” button. Yesterday there were some lame remarks about getting out an email (two hours late) and that there wasn’t time to get the word to both lock down the campus and stop the influx of tens of thousands of commuters.
They don’t have radio and TV in Blacksburg, Virginia? If at 7 A.M. a tornado was announced heading for that campus, what would have happen? How about a snowstorm? We had high winds in Washington D.C. this week and the schools were closed three hours early. It was on every radio and TV station in seconds. With that huge force of law enforcement, a good police commander could have closed every road into that campus in no time.
They got radios, cars and flashing lights, don’t they?
Did anyone notice that a bunch of those law enforcement offers were, ahem, chubby?
Law enforcement at Virginia Tech didn’t save one life. They didn’t waste one bullet doing it either. Somebody should be ashamed: law enforcement didn’t fire a shot. The only shooter on that campus got tired after all the mayhem he made.
If my kids name was killed in the classroom after 9 A.M. I am one angry parent.
When is the last time law enforcement found two dead students, murdered students, on that campus during the 7 A.M. hour?
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this is stupid ... did you write this?
there are a lot of things wrong in this world, but lack of ESP to see what will happen next is not one of them.
A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone. (or even one in the general vicinity - or so it appears.)
I hope this is not a product of your mind. It is a prime example of paucity of thought and abundance of reaction.
“We assumed this was a domestic violence case, we assumed that the shooter left the campus and maybe the state, and we assumed we were going to have a quiet day.”
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Two dead is a quiet day ?
Lot of kids dead and wounded because people is positions of safety and security ‘assumed’ !!!
Who is this asshat and why post such crap?
The best defense is a 9mm, the knowledge how to use it, and the determination to not become a victim.
If law enforcement finds snow on the ground at 7AM, should they slam the "Red Alert" button?
What indication did they have these two weren't murdered the night before?
I suppose that statement brings it home. I HATE SCAPEGOATING and everyone knows the right thing to do after the event. However, it appears as if the response to these murders, on college property, in a dorm no less, was grossly inadequate.
This is so unfair. I tell you that I just love these folks who are so perfect and knows exactly what to do in these situations. I think there were some problems yesterday that should have been handled differently, but to think that everyone did a crappy job is just not right. How does anyone know if the police saved a life or not? Was this author (use the word loosely) following every cop? Calling them fat is just plain ridiculous.
No one ever built a monument to a critic, since NONE of them has the ESP they criticize others for not having.
Give it a frickin’ rest. (directed at the author)
If two people were shot to death at Georgia State University (a downtown university of 30,000 +/-) dorm, they’d investigate the shooting at the dorm and school WOULD go on.
All this WHAT IF crap is useless.
I have seen and heard this mantra/assertion repeated so often in the past 16 hours that it must be true.
If only you had been on the scene to advise the authorities, you certainly could have kept them safe from 2nd-guessing by the media (and very intelligent folks such as yourself). It is not a given that 31 people would not still have died. It does make for a nice soundbite, however.
Enough people have been hurt in this incident, we don't need to hurt anyone else.
Once the full story is out you'll be wanting to send the President of the University, their Board of Visitors, and numerous members of the Virginia General Assembly to ride the gurney.
Where did you find this idiotic screed and why did you post it here?
The police are not mind readers- two homicides in itself is unusual. But to then have shooting start up again over two hours later in a different building...I don’t think that has ever happened before.
A campus like that is like a small city- it is impossible to instantaneously shut it down. If a neighbor of yours 3 blocks away was murdered would you want the police to close down your town?
Give it a rest Mike, my daughter went to Virginia Tech, and it is one of the safest places on earth. What happened yesterday, could on any specific day happen in your neighborhood. Oh Wait, it did happen in your neighborhood!
“I am sorry but I was in the U.S. Navy for 20 years. That’s a place where every man and woman learns accountability. If I lost 33 college students dead on my watch, the phone would have already been ringing. The Chief of Naval Operations would be telling the top dog to clean out his desk pronto. And the University President should take that police chief with him.”
Why does he make a blanket apology for being in the Navy for 20 years?
And just how would 33 college students die on his watch?
What a bunch of garbage!
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